Police say a man who was punched in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has died.
Const. Tania Visintin says 36-year-old Neil Scarisbrick died on Monday.
He is Vancouver's 11th homicide victim this year.
Visintin says police believe the victim and suspect are known to each other, and there is no risk to the public.
The sentence handed to Pierre Dion of Terrebonne, Que., went beyond what the Crown had recommended.
"Daesh or ISIS in Iraq or northeast Syria has been defeated in the sense that they are no longer a quasi-state," said Brig.-Gen. Colin Keiver
The federal bill, which now only requires royal assent to become law, will phase out the practice of holding cetaceans — such as whales, dolphins and porpoises — in captivity, but grandfathers in those that are already being kept at two facilities in the country.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government is starting the regulatory work to ban toxic single-use plastics because the garbage infiltrating the world's waterways is out of hand.
That's less than half the almost 2 1/2-megatonne reduction target the Tories originally announced in 2017.
Organizers say Shelby and two other heroic hounds — all rescues — are being recognized for life-saving acts of perseverance and intuition.